Healthy Lifespan Institute
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The Healthy Lifespan Institute is transforming the experience of ageing. We’re the UK’s first interdisciplinary research institute dedicated to understanding and preventing multimorbidity and frailty - to help everyone live healthier lives for longer.
Our rate of ageing is variable and malleable
From the moment we are conceived there are factors that influence how we age. These include the social and economic environments we live and work in, as well as our individual biology and behaviour. Our rate of ageing predicts our health span, i.e. the number of years we can expect to live an independent, healthy life. The slower our rate of ageing, the more resilient we are to multimorbidity, the presence of two or more chronic health conditions, which leads to frailty, and low quality of life in later years.
At the Healthy Lifespan Institute, we are developing interventions across the lifecourse that slow down the rate of ageing to increase resilience to age related-disease.
Preventing multimorbidity and frailty
We’re pioneering new medical treatments, health and social care policies and public health guidance across the lifespan, to help people age better and have healthier, more independent lives for longer.
Who we are
Our research
Understanding multimorbidity and frailty
Knowledge exchange and capacity building
Expertise
News
[## Advanced virtual simulations set to reshape care for patients with multiple long-term conditions
Advanced virtual simulation could revolutionise NHS care for those living with multiple long term health conditions thanks to a major new £6.1 million research partnership led by the University of Sheffield.
12 March 2026](https://sheffield.ac.uk/health/news/advanced-virtual-simulations-set-reshape-care-patients-multiple-long-term-conditions)
[## HELSI publications from September 2025
Members of the Healthy Lifespan Institute publish original research on a regular basis.
2 October 2025](https://sheffield.ac.uk/healthy-lifespan/news/helsi-publications-september-2025)
[## HELSI publications from August 2025
Members of the Healthy Lifespan Institute publish original research on a regular basis.
30 September 2025](https://sheffield.ac.uk/healthy-lifespan/news/helsi-publications-august-2025)
[## Sheffield researcher wins prestigious £1.39m BBSRC New Investigator Award
The University of Sheffield is celebrating a major milestone after Vitor C. M. Neves, Senior Clinical Lecturer and Honorary Consultant in Periodontology Translational and Regenerative Dentistry, was awarded a £1.39 million New Investigator Award.
4 September 2025](https://sheffield.ac.uk/health/news/sheffield-researcher-wins-prestigious-ps139m-bbsrc-new-investigator-award)
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